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TENNESSEE 4-H IDEAS IN THIS ISSUE 2007 Honor Club Summary UPCOMING EVENTS January 22-23
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Tennessee 4-H Home Page: 4h.tennessee.edu Online version of Ideas: 4h.tennessee.edu/ideas08 Ideas index: 4h.tennessee.edu/ideas08/08-index.htm Congratulations are in order for all 4-H agents, volunteers and teen leaders who encouraged 4-H'ers to apply for Honor Club membership last year. A total of 416 4-H'ers were initiated into the Honor Club during the 2007 calendar year. Henry County initiated the most Honor Club members in 2007 with 32. Other counties in the top five included Sevier County (31), Madison County (19), Warren County (19) and Knox County (16). The Central Region was the top region with 148 initiates, followed by the Eastern Region with 144 and the Western Region with 124. Additional data on Honor Club initiates may be found on the Web site at 4h.tennessee.edu/honorclub/howmany07.htm. Remember Honor Club is a recognition program. Honor Club recognizes members for participation in educational opportunities; membership does not involve winning any kind of competition. Members receive points on the application form just for participating. Any 4-H'er meeting a minimum number of points can achieve Honor Club recognition. An active Honor Club is an indication of a quality teen program. Why not invite your outstanding 4-H members to an application party hosted by your Honor Club members? Don't delay. Start your 4-H members working on their Honor Club applications today! We're awaiting your applications for 2008. Steve Sutton CUMBERLAND COUNTY LIVESTOCK TEAM TOPS ARIZONA NATIONAL The Cumberland County 4-H livestock judging team took top honors in the senior division at the Arizona National Livestock Judging Contest in Phoenix. Cumberland County was the high ranking team among 90 contestants and 28 teams from several different states. Taylor Graham was the high ranking individual of the contest and also placed first in the beef division. Emily Upchurch was the 6th high ranking individual of the day in the sheep division. Tyler Green ranked as the high individual in the swine division and seventh high individual overall. The three team members were accompanied by coaches Gregg Upchurch, County Extension Director and Keith Cole, FFA advisor. Robbie Casteel INFORMATION ON ANNUAL 4-H YOUTH ENROLLMENT REPORT The 2007 4-H Youth Enrollment report will be due January 25, 2008. The report reflects enrollment data for 4-H youth members and 4-H volunteers entered into SUPER to date. A video explaining how to create and submit the report in SUPER is available via Online@UT.
Take time to listen to the entire video before attempting to create the report. The video is very clear and explains the procedure to follow. If you have technical questions, please contact your regional IT personnel. If you have questions about reporting categories used in the report or reporting certain programming efforts, please contact your regional 4-H specialist. I greatly appreciate all the efforts everyone has invested in learning to use SUPER. Our testing of the report section has proved to be fast and easy. After you submit the report, make a hard copy for your files. No paper or electronic files will have to be sent to the state office because SUPER has automated this process. Please continue to enter 2008 data. The 2008 4-H Youth Enrollment Report will be due August 1, 2008. Carmen Burgos INITIAL LAUNCH OF NATIONAL 4-H DIRECTORY OF MATERIALS One of the priority outcomes of last June’s National 4-H Curriculum Summit was a recommendation that we create a National Directory of 4-H Educational Materials. I am pleased to announce that the directory is now online in its initial launch state and can be accessed at /www.4-hdirectory.org. Our goal is to have the full launch on April 1, 2008. The instructions to submit materials to the directory will be sent in two weeks. You may want to surf the site now to learn about the four categories of educational materials which we’re using to sort within the directory and see how the database is set up Cathann Kress THE LEADERSHIP SERIES… PART TWO Welcome to Part Two of The Leadership Series! As promised, we are sharing with you more leadership activities that you can use with your 4-H members. As a reminder, each of these activities highlight a different aspect of leadership. They are simple activities that require very few… if any… materials. They are designed in a step-by-step format that provides a list of materials needed, detailed instruction, and background/objective information. In many cases, there is an evaluation and/or follow-up included. The second activity in The Leadership Series entitled Toe Tapping on Leadership Characteristics, can be found at 4h.tennessee.edu/ideas08/attach/Toe_Tapping_on_Leadership_Characteristics.pdf. The purpose of this activity is to introduce basic vocabulary to help our 4-H members gain understanding of leadership and those characteristics that are important to leadership. This activity was specifically designed for beginner level 4-H members, but may be used with all learning levels. Additionally, I would like to thank those of you who contacted me about last week’s activity, Leading with Legos. I have received a number of great suggestions and wanted to pass them along to you. One of the biggest concerns expressed was in regard to expense. Perhaps Legos are not readily available or are too expensive to purchase. You can purchase, in bulk, Legos via www.lego.com. Likewise, many of you offered substitution ideas such as shopping on Ebay for Legos products and using beads, lifesavers or construction paper instead of the Legos. Perfect! Keep these wonderful ideas in mind to use with your activity. And thanks to all of you who commented and offered suggestions! Please keep them coming! Lori Belew MAURY COUNTY 4-H’ER FEATURED IN CLOVER CORNER NEWS A feature story written by Maury County 4-H member Hannah Wolters was published in the December issue of National 4-H Council’s Clover Corner News. The article on valuable lessons learned from raising a guide dog puppy can be found at 4hblogs.org/ccn/archives/2007/12/4h_member_learn.html. Steve Sutton NEW ROUNDUP SCHOLARSHIP FOR DAIRY PROJECT We are pleased to announce that beginning in 2008, Ray and Dot Spann are making available a $1,000 scholarship for the state Level II winner in the dairy project annually. Ray is a retired Extension dairy specialist and a past Tennessee 4-H Foundation president. He and Dot are long-time supports of the Tennessee 4-H program. Steve Sutton As Joseph Donaldson and I receive questions from agents, we will try to present them in Ideas so everyone can benefit from the Q & A in case you may have the question yourself in the future!
If you have questions regarding SUPER Enrollment or PEN, please send them to me and I'll respond as soon as possible. Carmen Burgos THOUGHT FOR THE WEEK Do not take life too seriously. You will never get out of it alive.
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